Basic Slideshow question

[brjames32]

Hi people

I am creating basic slideshow form to finish off an app I am writing. I have been at it all day finishing off the main app and am getting very tired now!!

Anyway, I have a form (which is called by another form) with just a Picturebox and a Timer on it. I use the following code to read in all the images in a folder:

Public Function GetPics()
        Dim pic() As String = Directory.GetFiles(strPicSource)

        For i As Integer = 0 To UBound(pic)
            picPath = pic(i)
            'MsgBox(pic(i))
        Next

    End Function

I want to be able to display them in the Picturebox on the same form at an interval of around 1 every 5 seconds. I have thought about using a Timer and using the Timer1_tick event to trigger the picture change but how can I go about this? I cannot have the following:

 Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
        'PictureBox1.ImageLocation = pic()
    End Sub

As this just points to the array of images and not a single image and there is no way of telling it to move to the next image each time.

Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks in advance

[kavinsky]

try this:

Public Function GetPics()
        Public pic() As String = Directory.GetFiles(strPicSource)
        Public picturecount as integer = 0
        timer1.start

    End Function

tick function:

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
        if picturecount <> ubound(pic)
            picPath = pic(picturecount)
            PictureBox1.ImageLocation = picPath
            picturecount = picturecount + 1
        end if
    End Sub

This is just off the top of my head though - and this does sound like homework to me . . .

Also you should be able to manipulate it to not use public variables - it's late and i've not had much sleep

[brjames32]

Cheers for the reply. Believe me, if this if Homework as you suggest then I must be the oldest student in Britain at 31!!

I was just very tired just like yourself after a 10hr shift then coming home to this project. Check my other posts to see other projects I have written. You'll know I'm not a Student then!

Will check out your code this morning.

Thanks again